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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-06-10
Notice to Creditors.

n LII. persons holding claims by note or
otherwise against the Estate of Asa
Hiett, decd, are hereby notified to prese q
THAR claims. properly proven. before the un
dersigned commissioner of the County Court
OF Hampshire county, at my office in Rom.
ney, on or bsfOre the list day OF July, 1887.
Given under my hand this slst dav of May
is6I. JAMES A. GIBSON,
May l7-4w Com missioner
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-06-10

West Virginia, and Bath aud ALE
ghany counties. Virginia connecting
at Clifton Forge with the Cheea peake
aud Ohi,. New York men are large.
ly Interested in the road. and the bulk
of the capital necessary 10 complete
1t will he furnished bv a grea, English
syudicate. This has been one OF West
virginia's "paper railroads" for some
time. and our State is to be consratu-
lated that at Tact its construction is
an assured fact.
~.
EFFORTS. It is said. are being r ade
BY the railroads to repde, the inter-
state commerce act obnoxious and
thus secure its repeal. This is the
best possible reason Why tue pc ople
OF this country should insist that this
law be not only kept upon the statute.
book. but enforced. It is one Of the
very best laws ever passed since the
founding of our government, and has
doue more to cripple the power Of
corporations and monopolies than any
other ever enacted. Moreover. it is
founded upon justice, pure and SIM
Pile, and justice, especially to the
people, is something no railroad com
pany can endure.
~
MANY of the government clerks at
Washington are running their health
By overwork. Ttey seem to think
that @ xcessive industry will help them
TO pass their determinations for promo.
ton. II used to be hard matter TO
get them to work by 8 o'clock nov.
the officials are compelled TO order
them from the buildings TO keep them
from putting in their appearance be-.
fore eight. No such state of affairs
was ever heard of in Washington be-
fore.
x**
THE Wayne County News says
"WetzeI county which has 800 Dem.
ocratic majority, elected Republican
County superintendent last week.
Two Democrats ran and split the vote
Anti-primary Dem ocrats will make a
note Of this" There's danger in
''scrub" races, even in counties giY-
ing the biggest Democratic maj ,rity.
~"
Mr. BLAINE still doubts whether be
or Cleveland was elected President in
1884. He has no doubts as TO who
has been occupying the White House
since that time, however. As a
doubter. Mr.. Blaine could discount
Thomas every time.
*x*
TRADE dollars will only be worth
their weigh. as bullionJ about 80
cents. after July 1. Those who have
any OF them should have them re,
deemed as soon as possible.
-
British imports during May de-
creased $1,000. 900. and exports in
creased sl,OO0.OoO, compar d with
the corr spending month last year,
Yet England Is FREQ trade country.
*.*
THE steel furnished for the new
naval cruisers has improved in quail
ityy and work on the vessels is pro-
ceeding satisfactorily.
~
SECRETARY Fairchild says there is
no necessity for an extra session of
Congress.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-06-10
IA CTS WORTH KNO VINO.
Whenever a person starts to do Ger.

an thing with the determination it ONLY reoures ma
bng about that result This rule holds good
elo ana Trade Farmers lawyers
all follow this rule ii they attain
market this spring determined find our counters the
pest values for the least offered Romney we succeeded
at as IN finding hem aud have Spring SPINNER
bargains to those who wish buy the best goods the least
In order to interest the ladies offer styles of lawns at and
cents per y cacoss and satteens of these
goods are OF best quality gnghams we have bio
yds OF heavy cotton tor only 80 double goods such az
nave heretofore sold at 2a and Is per
dress goods GA price, ITO 10 cents plain
~ne goods Victoria lawns India linens These low
prices hod good all through our line of goods gngham
VIII pay the ade. TO look at a-beaut,u
trimmed hats OF better quality than the nnimmed sold
c W" oHer LOT on c and III shoes for 75c-$2
opera slippers % have the the best Soc
e ehaws at 10 cents surprisingly leather
gloves ~ cents and collars TO the say you
nee summer hat for So cts here s the place cts
you want one tn cheap We will clear shoes at so
cents per Par AMI closing clothing
WI" you 10 see how cheal
price S45o suits at Sold 81; Sold price SO Our
Stock or tobacco embraces Is different kinds cents Der In m
but 40 tobacco knocks the time and pa
name iurthe
M 10 garrett with Bacon flour goods and no.
liens boots and shoes and tnware, carpets saddles &c
which we will sell at the lowest kind of prices take all kinds of
Trade from hen load the market Dice
IN exchange Don' fail to and hing will
ou lVooo lbs wool and highest price cash
r.. RUSSELL & BRO.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-06-10
Agricultural Implements.

AN prepared to furnish the public the
i 'est line OF Wagons. Buggief, Mowers.
keapers. Feed cutters. &C., Sc, at remarka
bly, low prices. and will not be undersold
Give me call before purchasing elsewhere
Thanking the public for past favors, am
respectfully, Il. G. COOPER.
May ~, 1887. Pleasant Dale, w. va
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23

Do not use coal oil lamps in bedrooms with
wick turned down low. They produce asthma
heart disease, th .oat disease, etc
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
The SteaIer of NeMsnaners-

Guests in large boarding houses find it diff.
cult TO secure their papers unless they sit up
all night and watch the front stoop when il
comes. have tried the plan of having my
name marked on the paper, but this has
availed Inc nothing. The spot on which was
placed my name would be torn off and the
gentleman who was complacently reading
and monorolzing my property would look up
from lis plate as / came in and, in voice OF
anxious inquiry. ask me whether had read
the news. On receiving negative answer
he would politely hand me the paper held by
him with the remark that was at liberty 70
use ''his paper Without exaggeration this
same thing has occurred to me for weeks at a
time. The same fellow who daily steals my
paper understand performs the same petty
larceny at his BARRIERS and in the cafes where
he is known That he is crazy on the subjec;
OF stealing newspapers have not the slightes,
doubt-Brooklyu Eagle.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
Courtesy and Courage.

know of St Paul artist (he only claims
to be an anateurI who not long ago invited
several lady friends to visit his studio and
inspect his works, as well as several rare pur-
chases that he had made in Munich The
dears came, all in flutter, to spend pleas
ant hour. On an easel was resting one of the
finest of his foreign collection, though to the
Impractical eye it would seem only SO much
color. 1t had cost him quite a sum, and he
intended eventually - present it to his
mother. His guests gazed on everything.
admired and chartered and talked until they
came to this. Then one, an innocent darling
with the bluest eyes, carelessly jabbing her
parasol point not only at it, but through it,
remarked: ''Oh, I'm so sorry. didn't mean
to do that. Pray forgive me, Mr.. Blank. ~
my dear madam" he replied, don't worry.
That is only an off hand work of my own
not worth anything at all.n Wasn't that
courtesy and couragei That "off hand"
picture had only cost him s4OO.-Pioneer
Press
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
Fashionable English on the Continen

But what fashionable English people like to
do at the end of their season is to go to the
continent for a month or two before the great
country life of the autumn sets H. The keen
est of the sportsmen, of course will not give
up grouse shooting, which begins on Aug ~;
but, after all, everybody has not grouse
moor, nor is everybody else invited to one;
and some even of the fortunate do get tired
of grouse shooting; and in July when the at
fractions Of parliament and politics and de-
bates begin to wane for the men; when the
women are tired of balls, and dinners. and
visits, and shops, and cricket matches at
Lords" and garden parties at Marlborough
house, perhaps third Of the very great and
gay world turns its face and feet toward the
continent. Nearly every English person of
rank or quality makes these visits once in two
or three years. They go to Carlsbad, and
Kissingen, and Wiesbaden, and Homburg,
and AK lie BainS, and the other points where
healing waters are reported to restore OF re-
vive the faded strength aid spirits and ap-
petites of those who are called the "world"
They live there the simplest and most
regular of lives; as different as possible from
that at an American. watering place. In
deed, except in Arkansas, or some other
place to which only the severest sufferers are
sent, doubt if there exists at any public re-
sort in America any such life as the most
fortunate of Europeans in circumstance and
station submit to at the ordinary German spa.
They live in the plainest quarters, they eat
the plainest and commonest fare, often such
as their own servants at lone would refuse
They put aside all their finery and go about
in the plainest garb. They rise at 6, end
sometimes at i'll the morning, and 60 to bed
at 9 at night They take the water from
some spring to which they are obliged to
walk, and they must go out in all weathers;
the water may not be brought, or it loses its
force; they stand en- queue, in long trains,
mixed with what they consider the common
people," ambassadors and princes, often
among shopkeepers and greasy Bohemians,
sent to the springs for obesity. They some
times, as at Carlsbad, carry their own cups,
but at other places, like Kissingen, they use
the same glasses as the mass, and the mass is
often very massy.-Adam Badeau's Letter.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
APPEALED FROM THE CHAIR.
Eow Parliamentary Decentralization Was
Ouelled in the Limekiln Club.

Row Parliamentary Naturalization WA
Ouelled in the Lirnekiln Club.
For some weeks past Elder Shinbone Whit.
beck has exhibited signs Of INSTRUMENTATION.
This is said to be owing to the fact that he
drew S13 i'm lottery and wants to establish
club of his own-a society with less form.
atty and more lemonade. 1t was evident
from his actions when the meeting opened
that he had an iron hot, and the triangle had
scarcely sent forth its stricken voice when he
was on his feet and addressing the president.
"Brudder Whitbeck, you ar out of order, "
replied the chair.
.Does de CHAIR decide dat I al' out of
order.'
at does, sab"
"Den [ peals from the decishun of de
CHAIR
Your peal am out of order, sah.'
81 also 'peals from that decishun, an axes
fur a vote of the LODGE
1t was plain to all members that Shinbone
was out of order, and that he was seeking to
force some issue. Brother Gardner looked at
him in dazed sort of way for minnie, and
then asked:
docs Brudder Whitbeck know dat he is
lldDlS 10 Il lille Vi 10 lSDtI IEOUSdIlu
dollarsr'
mo sahl demand a vote on my peal"
''Does you intend to bulldoze dis charY'
Il intend to new my rights under the con-
rtitushun an bylaws of dis club. L hev
'pealed from your decishun."
"Does any pusson second dat 'peal!' asked
the President as he looked up and down the
sisles
No one did.
The old man slowly removed the spectacles
from his nose, took the rhinestone pin from
his bosom and calmly descended the platform
and approached the elder The latter started
to pull brickbat, wrapped In alligator skin,
from his hind pocket, bit before he could get
it out something serious happened. From the
reporters desk It seemed as if his heels hit the
ceiling and mis- head the floor in rotation. One
OF his shoes sailed into the southwest corner
and struck State Rights Green in the stomach,
and the other flew in the east and upset Col
Pan Handle Jackson. Buttons, buckles,
broken suspenders, boot straps and recipes for
making root beer filled the air and were
drawn towards the open windows, and the
bumpety- bumps on the floor so alarmed the
grocer down stairs that he ran out and sought
to turn in fire alarm. By and by a deep
hush fell upon Paradise hall Brother Gard
ner returned to his chair. Giveadam ) 3
put his coat under the head of the pulvc Il
man and the floating fragments slowly dr. ted
out into the solemn night
"All guv'ments should rule by law" said
the president, as he toyed with his spectacles,
"but when subjects defy the law an de guv'-
ment too, de guv'ment should be ekal to de
occashun. Does any one else in dis hall want
to peal from de decishun of dis char under
de head of Communications
Not hoof moved Detroit Free Press.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
w~ q . ~&A -.
WHAT SOME FOLKS EAT.
T,DBITS THAT APPEAL TO THE AP-
PETITE OF NATURES CHILDREN.

Luxuries of the Frigid Zone-Tbe Aus
tralian's Favorite Dish-The Worlds
CLAY Eaters-Tngenious Dishes of the
Chinese-Central America.
II prefer simple dishes, well cooked" said
nv friend as we sat down to dinner. 81 have
given the subject great deal of thought, and
have Travelled so much that l have become
almost an anchorite in the matter of eating.
Ii have weakness it is dietetics.
"There is this about food: in point of guam
titv. without regard to quality, the jewellers
in the extreme north claim pre-emlnence. An
Esouimaux will eat twenty pounds Of meat
per diem, lubIicating the mass with as much
oil as he can swallow; yet Tongouse Will go
twenty pounds better, for he can get away
with forty pounds of reindeer meat in the
same space of time Both Of them blush for
their feeble powers when they see three va
kutes demolish whole reindeer at one sit
ting. and rise apparently none the worse for
the feed.
@The greatest luxury a Greenlander can
enjoy is half putrid whales tail, with relish
of the gum of the proper kind from the same
animal. Our DR.. Kane was much pleased
with walrus liver. He wondered that we
didn't eat raw beef, practice, by the way,
not unknown to many of our German citl-
zens, who will snap up piece from q
butchers block whenever they can honestly
do so. Whale meat must possess attractive
qualities, although l could never discover
them. because old whalemen commonly par
take of it. To a sensitive palate it has very
rank flavor The A B. seamen in the whal-
ing ships make it into force meat balls to re-
mind them, perhaps, Of the fish balls of Maine
or New Hampshire
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
)N-bfooALEn Easle,

a little linseed oil brushed over faded green
blinds will, if they are not too far gone, make
them look almost as good as new.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23

Take little starch or arrow root and
merely moisten it with cold water, and lay it
on the injured part. This must be done i'm
mediately, 50 as TO prevent the action Of the
cir upon the skin. However, it may be ap-
piled some hours afterward with good effects.
learned this when q resident Of France.
1t may already be known here, but have
met with none among my acquaintanoes who
seem to have heard Of it.
The old remedy, raw meat, is no: always at
haua. and some children have an insur-
mountable repugnance to let it be applied
eSSanai VI LpeInrslrs
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
FOR SALE.

Improved and Unimproved City Property
on the best improved streets in the city.
Lots on the inside on street car lines and In
outside additions Suburban lots on the east
side in Maple Grove addition.
Business lots and business blocks for sail.
at special bargains Several fine tracts near
the city for sub-dividing and plating
Improved farms and grass lands in all
parts of the county; also ranches in this and
adjoining counties.
All parties wishing to buy would do well
to call and examine my list before buying
elsewhere
W. A. THOMAS,
The Oldest Real Estate Agency in Wichita
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

IN HE AhIilS lLOAO-ND'
"Porpoise meat was once a favored dish
with the old English nobility, P. last SC
runs the story, which declares the proper
sauce to have been compounded Of sugar,
vinegar ard bread crumbs. The trapper In
the fer north loves beaver tail and bears
pew, and quite right he is. In arctic regions
eating is no easy matter; everything Is SO
hard that good teeth are as necessary as
sharp knives, while drinking requires care,
else the glass may become part of the lip. In
those frigid parts you eat your rum and
chew your brandy If fish is to be served up
there it has first to be caught, then thawed,
before being swallowed. Experience can
alone reveal the secret of the Esquimaux's
love for nice greasy, yielding, tallow candle,
and of the lingering sweetness long drawn
out as he pulls the wick gently between his
teeth. SO as not to lose one particle of its
flavor.
kangaroo tail is a dish an Australian
finds much flavor in. 1t is delicious. The
natives highly esteem the silent but wild
dingo, neither do they turn up their noses at
rats, but gluttony is allied to rudeness. The
black fellow, when at meals, devours all he
can, only now and then ainging morsel
over his shoulder to his wife and children. he
is likewise improvidert, for he seeks food only
when he Graves it, gorges to the last possible
tension of his dirty, black skin, and then sleeps
for several days and nights consecutively.
Eating in the Australian bush, by white folk,
is sadly married by fies fleas and the yellow
bottle, supplemented by mosquitoes, COM
pared to which New Jersey ones are but
sucklings
"Coming to South America, the Ottomacs
are the oldest people. They subsist entirely
on fat and ferruginous kind of clay, each
man eating daily pound or more. The
Indians of the Amazon. eat a kind OF loan,
referring it to other and decidedly better
food. l have seen them do it. The Pc
ruvians are also clay eaters, their mess being
a mixture of tale and mica-rather tough
food, even for Peru. Other nations are earth
eaters-the inhabitants of New Guinea, some
of the Bolivians, the negroes of Jamaica and
the natives of New Caledonia, as well as
many people who dwell III Siam, Siberia and
Kamschatka The Ottomacs, however, are
the onlwones who subsist on clay when other
food is obtainable.
"In Africa / found diet as various as the
people, and such trifies as blue mole, mice,
fat sleeps tails, stewed puppies, puma,
baked elephants trunk and feet, ostrich eggs,
ants stewed in butter, caterpillars, roasted
spiders, snails eight inches long,, and odd an
ticles not generally regarded as food are con-
sumed
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
What Humanity Demands.

The male wasp, the naturalist tells US, never
stings. But so long as he and his sister are
twins and dress exactly alike this bit of
knowledge availeth nothing to the careless
man who does not know it is the lady who Is
approaching him, until it be that she smiteth
him with her hustle. What humanity de-
mands of science in the case of the wasps is
the invention of some prompter method of
distinguishing between Monsieur and Mar
damwazzle at forty yards-Burdette in
BROOKLYN Eagle
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23
IN THE WEST INDIES.

"When the natives of the West Indies are
regarded from dietetic standpoint, baked
snake glide into the menu along with palm
worms Ia finger long,, fried in their own fat;
yet these colored gourmands cannot abide
rabbit stewl Rats are there also considered
q nice side dish, with occasional relishes of
geeana eggs and palm tree snout beetles.
Sounds nasty, doesn't it?
an those Asiatic countries where / have
been the palate can be disguised or tickled
with no end of curious dishes We know how
ingenious the Chinese are in their cuisine,
finding delight in half-hatched eggs, sharks
fins and maws, fowls and ducks tongues,
dogs hind quarters, rat soup, soup made from
the nests of the Hirundo esculento and, as
an appetizer, the chrysails of the silk worm,
after the silk has been wound from it.
sAt the Falkland islands gourmet can en-
Joy a new sensation by eating a sea lions
tongue. Il is excellent, but it must be fresh.
Trinidad prides itself on alligator and turtle
eggs The best place, however, for every
thing relating to turtle next to Fulton mar
ket) is the Isle of Ascension. There they are
bred, fed and from there exported.
"Snails ara eaten everywhere. The French
are great believers in them, as a succulent
dish. Inc European market Is mostly sup
piled from the 'snaileries' of the Isle of Crete,
where they are cultivated secundem artem,
and one kind is specially prepared, being fat
tened upon strawberries, for consumptives.
"Out in Central Africa the stately curas-
son and the sober guam, both large birds, are
diligently hunted as table delicacies, yet the
first named blped must not be eaten by the
hunters dog, for it will assuredly poison it.
"To these may be added the gibnet, or
tepesquinta, the peccary, and the Indian rab-
bit; all acceptable additions to that larder,
which is further enriched by balloons and
monkeys The last named, however, when
roasted, look like small babies-yet they taste
deliciously.
"Those are some of the reasons why pre-
fer simple Dishes" concluded my friend, and
at tie same time our dinner came to an end.
New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23

By dipping fish for ar instant in boiling
water much Of the difficulty in removing The
scales viii be overcome.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-23

Salt sprinkied over anything that is burn.
ing on the stove viii prevent any disagreeable
odor.
Bent County register., 1887-08-27
The Potato Radsers.

On Saturday last meeting of the
Evergreen Industrial Club was held
at the office of A. T. Post in Ever
green. The President of the club,
T. A. Pearson, occupied the chair
and c. r. Kapples was Secretary. A
very large attendance of potato rails
ers from Bergen Park, Creswell
Pleasant Park, Spruce Park and 9TH
er points were present and took part
in the meeting.
Specimens of early potatoes were
exhibited and endorsements of the
plans and objects of the club were
received from different points and
submitted to the central board and
placed on file.
1t was unanimously and enthusias-
tically resolved that specimens of
potatoes raissd in the foothills of
Jefferson county without irrigation
would be placed on exhibition at
the Denver Exposition for the bene
fit of raisers.
Personal communications were re-
ceived from parties interested in the
general interests of the county from
Clear Greek in the north to the Platte
River on the south endorsing the ef-
forts of the Evergreen Industrial
Club.
Committees were appointed to Sc
lect and prepare specimens of grain,
grasses and roots grown in the foot
hill regions of Jefferson County to
be exhibited at the coming River
Front fair at Denver.
Messrs. G. X. Kappes of Ever
green, William Warburton of Cres-
well and r. Hamer of Bradford
Junction were made committee to
select and prepare specimens of
grains, grasses and other products of
the foot-hill regions of Jefferon
county to be presented at the River
Front fair at Dsnver-Denver Re-
publican.
Bent County register., 1887-08-27

Secretary Morrison spent the larg-
er part of the week in Lamar, eating
spring chicken and watermelons with
which that neck of woods is said to
be swarming. He returned yesteI-
day afternoon looking much improv-
ed, without wrinkle in his bathing
suit.-Cheyepne Wells Gazette.
Judge Geo. W. Thompson visited
Pueblo short time ago to confer
with Judge Kelso in regard to the
Missouri Pacific coming to La Junta.
Judge Kelso informed him that a
line would leave the main track in
Wichita or Greedy county, Kansas,
and run southeasterly direction to
Lamar, thence up the river to La
Junta, where it would stop for the
present; but that IN year or so, the
line wonld be extended south to El
Paso, Texas. and through to the Pa
cific coast. They will build q round
house and machine shops OF sufficient
capacity to do the work for this di-
vision on the north side of the river;
but that eventually the shops would
all be removed to the south side of
the river and into La Junta. The
road will be completed into La Junta
by January !, lsss.-Pueblo Chief.
tain.
Bent County register., 1887-08-27
U. S. LAND OFFICE,

BENT LAND DISTRICT, LAMAR, CoLo.
Hon. FRANK ARBcKLE, Register.
Hon. FRANK SHRocK, Receiver.
Office hours from 10 to II A NJ, and
from to o'clock P. NJ
Bent County register., 1887-08-27
M. E. Church Directory.

Services will be held at the Hall regularly
on Sunday as follows. Sunday School at 10
O'Clock a. IN. Preaching at II O'Clock q. M
and at 80 p. m. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all. Rev. Beardsley, Pastor.